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RaceRove vs RaceRaves: Reviews vs Race Planning
What this says about RaceRaves was checked on September 25, 2026
RaceRaves and RaceRove both help you find races, and both have a 50-state tracker, but they start from different places. RaceRaves describes itself as an online community for races and the race experience, where finishers rate and review the races they have run. RaceRove is a US race finder built around planning and tracking, with course, weather and registration facts on each race page.
The short version: read the reviews on RaceRaves, plan and track on RaceRove. RaceRove's race details already link to a RaceRaves search for each race, so the two fit together.
- Races on RaceRove
- 18,075
- States and DC with races
- 51
On this page
The short answer
Use RaceRaves when…
- You want to read what other finishers thought of a race before you enter it.
- You want to rate and review the races you have run and keep them in a personal dashboard.
- You are looking at races outside the US: RaceRaves says about a fifth of its 10,000+ races are.
- You like browsing by race series.
Use RaceRove when…
- You are planning US races and want to see the states you still need at a glance.
- You want one search across 5K to ultra with filters for terrain, field size, past weather and distance from a city.
- You want course, weather and registration facts on the race page, with estimates labelled as estimates.
- You want to compare up to three races, or read a guide written for one race.
Side by side
| What's compared | RaceRove | RaceRaves |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A US race finder and planner: search, race pages, a 50-state board and comparisons. | An online community for races: find, research, rate and review races, per its about page. |
| Where the races are | US only: all 50 states plus Washington, DC. | Worldwide. It says 10,000+ races are listed and about 20% are outside the US. |
| Runner reviews | No archive of reviews. Race details link out to RaceRaves for them. | Yes, and they are the heart of the site: finisher ratings and written reviews. |
| 50-state tracking | A 50-state board with completed, planned, considering and untouched states and a projected finish year, and a filter for states you still need. | A 'smart' 50 States Map that shows your progress from the races in your profile. |
| Finding races | By state, month, distance, terrain, field size, weather, distance from a city, or new states only. | By month, state or city, distance or race series, or a custom search by name, distance, terrain, date and location including zip code. |
| Your own race list | Saved, planned and finished races, PRs and a race journal; a free account keeps them on every device. | 'My Staging Area': a dashboard of past and future races and personal bests. |
The RaceRaves column is what RaceRaves says about itself, read on September 25, 2026; the sources are listed at the bottom of the page. Counts of races are not compared, because each site decides for itself what counts as one listing.
Where RaceRaves is stronger
- Reviews. RaceRaves' finisher ratings and write-ups are the one thing RaceRove does not have, and RaceRove does not copy them: they belong to RaceRaves and its members.
- Reach beyond the US, if you race abroad.
- Community: you can follow other runners, and browse races by series.
Where RaceRove is different
- It plans around the states you still need: a board with a projected finish year, a filter for new states only, and a World Marathon Majors tracker.
- Course, past race-day weather, registration and travel sit on one race page, each figure with its source. Course profiles are on file for a minority of races, mostly marathons.
- Side-by-side comparison of up to three races, and more than 200 guides written about specific races that read the live race details.
Using both
Find the race on either site, read its RaceRaves reviews, then use RaceRove for the course, weather and registration facts and to mark it planned on your board.
Questions
- Is RaceRove the same as RaceRaves?
- No. They are separate sites with similar names, and RaceRove is not affiliated with RaceRaves. RaceRaves is a race review and community site; RaceRove is a US race finder and 50-state tracker.
- Does RaceRove show RaceRaves reviews?
- No. The reviews belong to RaceRaves and its members, so RaceRove does not copy them. A race's details on RaceRove link to a RaceRaves search for that race.
- Which site has more races?
- The counts do not compare cleanly: RaceRaves says it lists 10,000+ races worldwide, and each site decides for itself what counts as one listing. Search your own state and distance on both.
- Can I track all 50 states on both?
- Yes. RaceRaves builds its 50 States Map from the races in your profile. RaceRove's board has four statuses per state (completed, planned, considering, untouched), a projected finish year and a filter for the states you still need.
- How many races does RaceRove list?
- Right now RaceRove lists 18,075 US races, 10,446 of them with a confirmed upcoming date, across all 50 states and Washington, DC. Many future dates are worked out from the last running and marked as estimates, so confirm on the race's own website before you book.
- Is RaceRove free?
- Yes. RaceRove has no paid plan and searching needs no account. A free account, which needs only an email address, keeps your saved and finished races on every device.
- How current is this comparison?
- What this page says about RaceRaves was read from its own pages on September 25, 2026. Sites change their features, prices and numbers, so check RaceRaves directly before you decide.
Sources
Everything said about RaceRaves on this page comes from its own pages, read on September 25, 2026. If something here is out of date, they are the authority.
See what RaceRove shows for a race
Search every US race by state, month, distance, terrain, field size and weather, then compare up to three.